When I built my pond a few yrs ago and I stocked it with 2 to 3" BG that May, my fish supplier told me that those will be spawning and reproducing in a couple months, I thought he was feeding me a line but he was absolutely correct, with no predators in the pond at that time, by the 4th of July, I had lowered the water in the pond to remove and pile up some brush around the perimeter that I failed to get done because the pond got too full to fast, I had a gazillion BG nests all over the shallow areas, they stayed on their beds till I stopped draining the water to keep from disturbing their nests. but I was amazed at those little things procreating! Good Luck!
